Improvement in devices for baling cotton



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Device-for Baling Cotton.

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ATTORNEYS. I

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- WILLIAM ILER, OF SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN W. ILER, 0E SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR BA LING COTTON.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159.098, dated January 26, 1875; application tiled November 21,1874.

To all whom it may concern g Be it knownthat I, WILLIAM ILER, of Shreveport, parish of Oaddo, Louisiana, have invented a new and Improved Device for Baling Cotton, &c., of which the following is a specification The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a side view of the device. Fig. 2 is the clamp on the draft-bar detached. Fig. \3 represents the lower portion of the lever, showin g the other clamp attached to its end. Fig. 4 is a modification of the draft-bar and clamp, and Fig. 5 is another view of the clamp of Fig. 4.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the lever, made of wood or metal, and of suitable size, having attached to its end a clam B. This clamp turns freely on'the bolt 0, ad the arm D comes in contact with the end of the lever, substantially as seen at E, so that when the endof the band F is between it and the end it may be securely clamped, and held when the lever is operated. G is the draftsbar, which passes through a mortise in thelever, oris attached in any other substantial manner thereto, so that it will turn freely on a pivot-pin, H. At the other end of the draft-bar is another clamp for clampingand holding-the other end of theclamped the same as on the end of the-lever.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a bale-band stretcher consisting of two pivoted arms with eccentric heads and pivoted gripers; but

What I claim is- 1. The swinging clamp B, having right-angled arm D, and pivoted to one side of a lever, A, having an oblique-edged lower end,

as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, with bar G, of the-lower lip J and superposed cam I, as and for the purpose specified.

WILLIAM ILER.

Witnesses DAVI PABST, ALFRED LEGARDY. 

